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  • Lightning Strikes Twice

    Lightning Strikes Twice

    Harvard joins Yale in acknowledging the intellectual climate crisis inside elite higher education.

    Editor’s Note: The following article was originally published on the National Association of Scholars on May 6, 2026. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style, it is crossposted here with permission. Lightning rarely…

  • Arizona Honors Colleges Trade Plato for Politics

    Arizona Honors Colleges Trade Plato for Politics

    ‘Eating the Globe: The Diverse, Weird, and Queer Food Politics’ among courses flagged in Goldwater Institute report.

    In Arizona, public universities are taking the state’s best and brightest and diluting their potential. Arizona State University (ASU) and the University of Arizona (UA) together educate nearly 90 percent…

  • Regaining Trust Will Come at a Cost

    Regaining Trust Will Come at a Cost

    Universities will need to cut tuition and dismantle the insider culture driving administrative excess.

    Yale recently released a report asking how universities can “regain trust.” The report offers a familiar list of vague recommendations—“re-center the classroom” (whatever that means), “deliver value,” “focus on the…

  • They Keep Losing and Keep Trying Anyway

    They Keep Losing and Keep Trying Anyway

    California lawmakers push ACA 7 to revive racial preferences that voters have repeatedly rejected.

    Author’s Note: A version of this article originally appeared in my weekly Top of Mind newsletter, which goes out to subscribers every Thursday. Sign up to receive it directly in your…

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